New on Netflix and Amazon Prime and other services week of Dec. 14

Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical “ROMA” (Mexico, 2018, not rated, with subtitles), about growing up in Mexico City in the early 1970s, has won awards from film festivals and critics groups and is an early Oscar favorite. It arrives on Netflix while playing in select theaters around the country.

Keira Knightley is “Colette” (2018, R) in the biographical drama about the early years of the great French author from award-winning director Wash Westmoreland. On Cable On Demand and VOD, also on DVD and at Redbox.

Classic pick: “The Great Escape” (1963) is the exemplar of the World War II adventure, with Steve McQueen leading a massive cast of individualists working on the ultimate heist: escaping an inescapable German POW camp. It’s a lot of fun but still grounded in a serious reality, and director John Sturges reminds us that there are consequences to these actions. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Free streams: Every episode of Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” andFirefly” is now streaming for free on Facebook Watch and HBO is streaming “Icebox” (2018, TV-14) for free for nonsubscribers through January 10, 2019.

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The animated comedy “Smallfoot” (2018, PG) follows the adventure of a Yeti in a remote Himalayan mountain discovering that the legend is true: humans do exist! Also new:

action drama “The Equalizer 2” (2018, R) with Denzel Washington back to get justice for the oppressed;

True stories: the six-part documentary series “The Innocent Man,” based on the true crime best-seller by John Grisham, looks at the case of Ron Williamson, who was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. Also new:

“Out of Many, One,” a short documentary featuring the stories of immigrants preparing for American citizenship;

Foreign language TV: “The Protector: Season 1” (Turkey, with subtitles), a fantasy about a young shopkeeper in modern Istanbul who discovers he is part of an ancient order of mystical protectors, is the first Netflix Original series from Turkey. Also new:

A teenage girl (Zoey Deutch) relives the same day over and over again in “Before I Fall” (2017, PG-13), a young adult drama twist on “Groundhog Day” and Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones are Americans on the run from German criminals in the action thriller “Collide” (2017, PG-13).

Streaming TV: s the complete run of mall town sitcom “Corner Gas,” the most popular Canadian comedy of all time, is now available, including the reunion feature “Corner Gas: The Movie” (2014, PG)

Foreign affairs: “Paris, je t’aime” (2007, R, with subtitles) celebrates the City of Lights in eighteen short vignettes set in different districts of Paris and three filmmakers set more substantial short films in “Tokyo!” (2008, not rated, with subtitles). Also new:

“Gabbeh” (Iran, 1996, not rated, with subtitles) from Mohsen Makhmalbaf;

two non-narrative films from Jean-Luc Godard and his radical Dziga Vertov Group: “British Sounds” (aka “See You at Mao”) and “Le Vent D’Est” (“Wind from the East”) (both France, 1970, not rated, with subtitles).

Classics: Faye Dunaway and Max von Sydow headline the all-star cast of “Voyage of the Damned” (1976, PG), based on the true story of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that no nation would take in. Also new:

Cult: Teruo Ishii’s “Horrors of Malformed Men” (Japan, 1969, with subtitles), based on stories by Edogawa Rampo, is one of the weirdest films to come out of the Japanese horror genre. And that’s saying something. Also new: juvenile crime dramas “The Boy Who Came Back” (Japan, 1958, with subtitles) and “Teenage Yakuza” (Japan, 1962, with subtitles) and underworld thriller “Smashing the 0-line” (Japan, 1960, with subtitles) from director Seijun Suzuki.

Prime Video and Hulu

Indie drama “Say You Will” (2017, TV-14) follows a recent high school grad (Travis Hope) as he cares for his mother and navigates his first relationship in the wake of his father’s suicide (Prime Video and Hulu).

Hulu

Taraji P. Henson stars in Tyler Perry’s “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” (2009, PG-13) as a reckless nightclub singer suddenly responsible for three troubled teenage kids.

A teenager (Max Record) fights his own homicidal impulses while investigating a string of murders in “I Am Not a Serial Killer” (2016, not rated).

“Deutschland 86” (Germany, with subtitles), the second season of the series begun as “Deutschland 83,” jumps ahead three years in the drama set in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

More streaming TV: “Zac & Mia: Season 1” stars Kian Lawley and Anne Winters as the only teenagers in the cancer ward of a hospital. Also new: